I’ve been sidetracked from my pursuits at project euler with an entirely new interest. Raytracing! I stumbled upon the post over at hackification.com and have decided to see if I can’t do something similar. Another good link I found was over as LukeH’s msdn blog. Very interesting stuff check it out.

Nifty article from www.devthought.com detailing 4 levels of programmer competence. Word a read I know people that fit into all categories and while I won’t presume to rank myself I thought I’d post a link to the article to let you all read it.

Find it here.

The IMF says the world economy is going to shrink in 2009 and developed countries are going to take a least a year or 2 to get back on there feet. So I guess its time to hunker down and strap in and hope we can ride out the rest of the bad times.

Find the BBC story Here.

Digg it Here.

The fed is apparently planning to pump another trillion dollars into the economy further diluting our currency.

From the International Herald Tribune find the story Here.

Here’s the post from The Wall Street Journal.